Start of the fall-the cat's paw prints,on the hood of my car.

Hermes - this is quite good. I see a new venture entitled "Dive Bar Haiku".

erm, pardon me, but for these lines to be called "haikku", wouldn't they need to be in a 5/7/5 form, instead of 4/4/6 ? or am I much mistaken and a Haikku is simply a three line poetic statement? sorry for disturbing only for this trivial detail.

Lee Loreya - I'm glad you asked this question. When haikai first emerged in early 17th century Japan, it employed a form consisting of 5/7/5 onji, roughly equivalent to 4/6/4 syllables in English. Western haiku, particularly since the latter half of the 20th century, rarely concerns itself with syllable count. For more opinions about haiku than you'd ever dreamed existed, check out this site.